Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-08

have been inspired by the intrepid acts of
I women. The Maid of Saragossa lives i'm
mortal in the resonant lines of Byron
Her lover sinks-she sheds no ill-timed tear;
Her chief is slain-she fills his fatal post;
Her fellows fiee-she checks their base career;
The foe retires-she heads the ssllying host
VINO can appease like her lovers ghost?
Who can ayenge so well a lovers fall?
What maid retrieve when mans hushd hope
is lost?
Who hang so iercely on the flying Gaul
Fold by womans hand before batter d
wall?''
While we award the need of praise to
the women of all ages for a valor that
shines brighter because least expected from
them, yet we claim that the women of the
revolution exhibited a higher and more
persistent courage-a more trying, even
and exhaustive determination, and that
they were
I'm softness as in firInnes IS far above
Remoter females"
The circumstances of our great revolt
were different from those which character
lied other cardinal events in the world S
history. And these circumstances tended
| to virilize, SO to speak, the powers and pos
| sibilities of the women of the revolution.
Injured to the hardships of frontier life,
| subject to constant invasions and attacks
I lIOul LUIS, lllc WAS u lneIu Oiie lOllS
| battle and they naturally became veterans
| to the hardships and dangers common to
the life of soldier. Therefore when the
| Colonies drew the sword, the women may
be said to have thrown away the scabbard.
They entered into the contest with en-
| thusiasm and faced its perils with unfinch-
| ing nerve. But there was deep down in
| their nature grated root of religious con-
viction which buoyed them up throughout
| the long dark years of the trying conflict.
A firm reliance in God and strong spir-
itual instinct sustained them in all their
hard experiences. They never faltered,
because they believed in the righteousness
of an oyerruling providence who had their
cause in his keeping. And thus it is one
of the most touching lessons in the history
of our great struggle that every mother,
every wife, whose annals have come down
to US, was deeply impressed with the stern
| conviction OF q pure Christian teaching.
They sent forth their husbands, sons and
brothers to face death on the field
with benedictions that came from true reli-
! gious hearts and all the personal literature
| of the revolution, from the beautiful and
| eloquent letters of Mrs. Abigail Adams
| down to the simple invocations of Lydia
| Darrah, are redolent of the pure and frag-
rant aroma of Christian faith. And who
will say that this sublime reliance of the
women of the revolution-this beautiful
and ever-present consciousness of higher
power ready to bear their burdens-this
entire confidence in the sanctification OF
| their cause by the Supreme Ruler-this
unwavering faith in the God of Hosts and
the God of Battles-imparted by them to
their husbands and sons, nerving their
arms in the hour of need and raising them
from dependency in the hour of darkness
and gloom, did not do more for freedom
than all other causes combined? With the
exaltatioR of religious faith in the women
of the revolution success was possible
without it defeat was certain.